Question: I've heard it said that we don't have all the Bible; is that true? 1. This question has reference to the apocrypha (a Greek term that means "hidden", or "secret things"), books that were written at various times from about 300 B.C. to 30 B.C. (The Bible Almanac, p.582). 2. These books are as follows: 1) 1 Esdras 2) II Esdras 3) Tobet 4) Judith 5) The Rest of the Book of Esther. 6) The Wisdom of Solomon 7) The Wisdom of Ecclesiasticus 8) Baruch 9) The Song of the Three Holy Children 10) The History of Susanna 11) Bel and the Dragon 12) The Prayer of Manasses 13) I Maccabees 14) II Maccabees 3) Some of these books are valuable as history, particularly the books of Maccabees, but they are not inspired books. 4) This can be seen from the fact that the New Testament quotes from the O.T. hundreds of times, but never from the apocrypha. 5) The 16th Century reformer, Martin Luther, included the apocrypha in his German Bible (1534), but printed them separately, asserting that they were not inspired, but profitable. 6) There is no internal or external evidence which would include the apocrypha as scripture. 7) The Council of Trent (1545-63) proclaimed the books as Scripture and pronounced an anathema on those who disagree. But this attempt is 1 1/2 thousand years too late. We can be confident that we have all God intended for us to have in our Bible.